When I returned home this evening I found that Apple has rolled out the next maintenance release to Mac OS X Leopard, 10.5.5. The update is available now via the Apple Software Update control panel, which can be found in the Mac OS X System Preferences area. (System Preferences can be quickly accessed from the grey gears icon in the Dock menu along the bottom of the Finder desktop.
According to the Apple knowledge base, the Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 update “is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.”
For more details about what the update fixes, please refer to the Apple website.
Normally I don’t post notes about desktop operating system updates on Foleo Fanatics. This update, however, I though was worth mentioning here as it does relate to my fellow Palm OS users. In Apple’s update documentation in the General section, the following line caught my attention:
“Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.”
At this time, I am unaware of what issue this update addresses specifically. If you read the Macintosh forum over on the Palm Help Forums, Brighthand, or other sites, the Mac boards are full of Mac and Palm customers who can’t get their Palm OS devices to sync with their Macintosh.
Regardless, I’m glad to see that Palm and Apple are still working together to ensure that there is some interoperability between their devices.
2 Comments
Branedy
This would be great, except that my Palm T/X did sync with my Mac until the 10.5.5 update, now it’s broken and I will have to figure out how to fix it.
Alan Grassia, Staff Writer
After any major software update, it is a good idea to go back and run the repair permissions command in Apple’s Disk Utility application.Doing so has been known to fix sync issues.Alan G